The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-03
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The Proceedings of Congress During
the Past Weck-Some Important
Legislation.

Legislation.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 29.-The For
tyNinth Congress will pass out of exs
istence with good record, notwith-
standing What its critics said last ses-
sion. 1t may not produce new tar
iff act, or stop the silver coinage at its
present rate, but it has provided
agaist an 1nterregnum In the Presiden-
tlal succession, it has settled the Elec-
toral count controversy, and it has
put into the hands of the President an
act for the regulation of interstate
commerce, for which the people of
certain sections have been calling in
vain for years. 1t has also attended
to some pressing needs in dozen 9th
er directions, whatever may have been
its general conduct.
During the present week the Senate
has voted against woman suffrage,
voted again against the confirmation
of Recorder of Deeds Matthews, voted
for closing the ports of the United
States against Canadian imports, in
retaliation for England's violation of
treaty obligation with regard to fish
cries, and it is now debating the ques-
lion of Agricultural Experiment Sta
tions. The House is plodding over
prosy appropriation bills.
Senator Hoar created mild sensa-
ton in the Senate few mornings
since by proposing a new rule. He is
outraged at the irreverance of the Up
per House, and he asked that the
Senate shall not be called to order nor
the Chaplaln's prayer proceed at any
time until a quorum be present. He
said it was ridiculous and disgrace
full spectacle, the daily delivery of the
invocation in the presence of only
three or four Senators. If religious
exercises were to be continued they
should be decorous. If his PROPOSE
ton should carry in both houses, it
would greatly disturb habits of long
standing, and perhaps lead to an abo-
lition of the Chaplain's office altogeth-
er.
For nineteen years the National
Woman's Rights Association has held
its sessions in Washington. For nlne
teen successive years the prominent
advocates of woman suffrage have
here set forth their grievances, chal-
lenged and condemned their oppress-
ors, cherished their faith and renewed
their vows. For nineteen years Miss
Anthony, Mrs. Sattuck, Mrs. Stanton,
Mrs. Hooker, Mrs. Howell, Mrs Wal
lace, Mrs. HarbeTt, Mrs. Blake, Mrs.
Sewell, Miss Cousins and others, have
appealed to Congress for the ballot,
have pressed the matter to q vote,
have hung over the galleries of the
L
!, ton; and they have repeatedly seen
one house or the other vote down
their cause as they saw the Senate
vote il down yesterday.
, The fact that sixteen Senators of
, the ffty-one then present in the Sen
ate Chamber voted in their favor
while they icounted on the friendship
| Of eleven more who were absent is
considered a great triumph. Miss
Anthony feels that thelabors of life
time are now bearing appreciable
fruit She realizes that twenty years
ago her proposed Constitutional
| Amendment would have been hooted
out of the Senate with derision. Ten
2 years ago it would not have tared
? much better, and five years ago she
, would not have counted upon the ap-
proving votes of sixteen Senators.
: A friend OF woman suffrage said to
7 Miss Anthony: "The trouble with
e your cause is that it lacks political vi
tality. Senators come and 90 and
Representa- tives still more frequently
without regard to the merits or de-
merits of the principle of woman suf-
frage. Could the question involved
: become direct issue before the peo-
l pie, and the election of Senators and
: Members be made to turn on it, the
result might be different. No one is
sent to Congress as Il woman suffra-
f gist continued he, call Of them come
uninstructed in the matter except by
4 their own prejudices, and so they
: vote"
Miss Anthony read in convention
5 the names of those Senators who voted
: for her bill, calling it the roll of hon
| or from the Senate wing of the Capt.
:. tol,' and then the names of those op-
:. posed. The audience applauded when
n She remarked that the new Senator,
# Mr.. Farwell, who occupies Gen. Lo-
i gan's former seat, cast his first vote in
: the Senate for woman.
;; 1t was decided to spot those Sen
: ators who had put themselves on re-
: cord against this bill for woman, and
), Miss Anthony remarked that if Sena-
: tor ingalls, should be reelected from
: Kansas it would be because the women
e of Kansas were powerless to defeat
: him. He would find party among
e his constituents that he had not count